Today I shall be mostly listening to Radiohead, in an attempt to find out if they're as bad as I remember ( Read more... )

I think it should be better-known that there is literally a playing field at Eton called Mesopotamia.

The jokes write themselves...

Yesterday I finally crossed off a to-do item that's been bothering me for twenty-one years ( Read more... )

We've been to a couple of gigs recently, both at the HMV Picture House here in Edinburgh ( Read more... )

Number 1 in an occasional series about friends and loved ones who are no longer with us.

My schoolfriend Fred Hood died on Christmas Eve last year, at the age of 28. Swept away by an avalanche while skiing in Austria, he was mercifully killed instantly. Being an international sort of chap, he had memorial services in Washington DC, Bologna, and ( Read more... )

My trousers, as is their wont, have all decided to fall apart at the same time again, so I've been doing a bit of sewing this week. I'm not much good at sewing, but I offer up what little I know about the subject in the hope that others may find it useful. Most of this was taught me by stronglight, mi_guida, half_of_monty and susannahf, some of it I remember from school, some was taught ( Read more... )

Conversation over on Reddit, prompted by this image:the_bob: Since when are meatballs a meal in of themselves!?
pozorvlak: If these are anything like the faggots I was served in my youth, they're quite serious hunks of meat and onions and god-only-knows.
rockefeller2: Was this served in a Catholic church?
pozorvlak: English boarding school. But the ( Read more... )

I see that Londoners have chosen the devil they don't know in place of the devil they do. I shall observe my fellow KS's future performance with considerable interest, and at a distance of several hundred miles ( Read more... )

I went to a high school reunion a couple of weeks ago.

( Cut for arrogance )